Freedom of Speech takes a hit

[fishermccann]

Now that we've established those who are in favor of censorship, it appears that some of them have caused enormous amounts of problems on this forum in the past. Can we have Gilroy, Fishercamm and Fox remove from this forum asap please. Thankyou

I'm kidding of course, but just wait till I get the power!!!!!!

Big difference in not agreeing with what people views are, what they say , and breaking the rules set out by the administrators of this forum.Again, should you have to go along with the majority view,to be a member of the forum?

[onelessarrow]

Your racebaiting and overall hate speech use to get the preverbal eyeroll from me , but not anymore. We got new rules to go by in your game we call society.
Just a heads up.

[fishermccann]

Rules and laws, sometimes they work for you, sometimes against. I have always tried to follow them as best I could. That is why they are there, so some people do not become irresponsible, in their actions.

[MarkB]

Blah, blah, blah.

[gbk]

For the ones hugging and applauding these decisions- LOOK OUTSIDE, please see how Merkel and her Government and Macron(and the whole French elite and Government)condoned this act by Twitter,and the other likeminded bunch........raising concerns ,especially about the authoritarian decision making by the "owners" of these sites .Going that far ,to call them "digital oligarchs-who control the digital media,which should never happen,but have governments control it!

Every each of them raises concern about freedom of speech........HELLO!
They do realize and SAY EXACTLY what the majority here is saying.

To our friends from the left and far left (YEP,there is as much far left as much far right it is-just somehow that is conveniently forgotten)i think those people overseas KNOW BETTER then some of "us".

[gbk]

Asked about Twitter’s decision, Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said the operators of social media platforms “bear great responsibility for political communication not being poisoned by hatred, by lies and by incitement to violence.”

He said it’s right not to “stand back” when such content is posted, for example by flagging it.

But Seibert also said that the freedom of opinion is a fundamental right of “elementary significance.”

“This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” he told reporters in Berlin. “Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked.”

[Badenoch]

Free speech has limitations which includes location. Twitter, FB et al are not the public square but private companies. Just as you have the right to throw someone out of your house if he says something you deem offensive so too do these companies have the right to ban Trump or anyone else.

[onelessarrow]

This is about stifling the truth not just about stifling Trump. If it was just about Trump, they wouldn't be removing all content to do with election fraud.
We're in a propaganda war. It's long overdue for people to pull their heads out of their azzs and wake up.

[Badenoch]

This is about stifling the truth not just about stifling Trump. If it was just about Trump, they wouldn't be removing all content to do with election fraud.
We're in a propaganda war. It's long overdue for people to pull their heads out of their azzs and wake up.

Wake up and do what? When the "battlefield" in your "propaganda war" is owned by someone else it's their rules not your interpretation of the "truth" that wins.

I'd throw Trump and his merry band of neo-Fascists out of my home too.

[Jakezilla]

Something to think about. Can't have it both ways.

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